Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-10


reported.
THE jury in the case of ex-Alderman
O'Neil in New York returned verdict
of guilty on the night of the 1st. Motion
will be made for q new trial. Meanwhile
O'Neil has been consigned to the Tombs
to await sentence.
ABOUT forty or fifty cattle growers of
the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana
and Illinois met on the I'd at the Grand
Hotel, Cincinnati, ond organized the Ohio
: Valley Cattle Growers Association.
C.M CLAY, of Kentucky, in letter to
the President, says it is better to have
pleuro-pneumonia, smallpox and cholera
spread over the United States than to
suffer the ravages which will result from
the Importation of Australian rabbits.
ARCHBISHOP ELDER of Cincinnati au-
thorizes the statement that the Catholic
church is in no way responsible for the
organization of theatrical company to
gather money to aid in paying the Purcell
debt, nor does he in any manner sanction
any such scheme.
Rev B. B. WARFIELD, d. D., professor
of New Testament exegesIs in the Western
Theological Seminary at Pittsburgh, Pa,
announces his acceptance of the call to
Princeton Theological Seminary, where
he Will occupy the chair of systematic and
polemic theology.
AT fourteen minutes past eight o'clock
on the night of the 31st the little town of
NellbOrn, Tex, was shaken twice by
slight earthquake shocks, causing win
dows to rattle and houses to tremble
This as the first earthquake shock ever
feltin that section.
&IHHoUGH it was publicly announced
that Mrs. Cleveland would not receive on
the list, the word was passed around to
her .friends that she would be Sat home
TO chose who sent in their cards, and she
haG quite a reception, attended only by
personal acquaintance.
The following is list of Senators who
have announced their intention of speak
ing on the 9th in eulogy of Senator
Logan: Edmunds, Evarts, Allison, Mand-
ersou, Frye, Plumb, Spooner, Hawley,
Cullom, Stamford, Morgan, Cockrell,
Hampton, Ransom and Blackburn.
IT wassstat last week that Mrs. rCleve-
land would probably abandon her Tues
day and Thursday private receptions of
personal friends. This prediction has
been swiftly realized, as the announce
ment was made ON the 3lst that she will
not hereafter be at home on these days
KIsa LEOPOLD of Belgium will send a
message to Parliament on the necessity of
making personal military service CON-
pulsory in Belgium ana of supplying the
means Gf such a state Of defense for the
country as the present condition and the
future prospect of Continental affairs
make e0Pedient-
THE British ship kaput da, which left
London December IL for Fremantle, West
ern Australia, with emigrants, came into
collision near the coast of .Brazil, with an |
unknown vessel, aIld was sunk. Three |
hundred of those on board were drowned. |
The remainder were saved a1d have az
rived at Bahia. i
RAILROAD companies having headquar- !
rters in Milwaukee, Wis, have recently |
made out, by request of the Wa Depart |
ment, list of their rolling stock and
statement OF their ability t. convey
troops to points Oh their lines. the state
me4Its were sent to the War Department
at Washington.
IT,k estimated that the public debt will
show decrease of about S1.0a0. 900
since January 1. The receipts dur
ing january were S29700,0 900, being about
&, 0O000a more than the receipts for the
same menth of last year The expendi-
lures for January, 1887, were $4,000, 900,
being 81. 100000 less than the expenditures |
for January, 1856.
SENATOR FAIRS son, who made a little |
III sturb ance in Washington few nights
ago, was packed off to Panama the next
by his stern father. Senator
Fair. it is said, had offered his son a
round million of his own if he would alb
stain from liquor entirely for one year
Up to last week the youth had an I'M
aralzan record OF seyen months. HIS first |